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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism. [PDF]

Cell Genom
Han Y, Hu S, Liu K, Xu X, Li Z, Doherty S, Jamieson AE, Manin A, Martins SG, Yang M, Yu C, Wang J, Wu Z, Chen C, Han S, Lu D, Peng L, Wu X, Fan W, Cai Q, Cui Z, Yuan J, Li Z, Liu Y, Li Z, Liu Z, Ma Q, Shao J, Sun Z, Xing F, Yang W, Yang S, Yue L, Zhang P, Wang W, Zhang-Zheng H, Zhuang Y, Sun X, Pan Y, Wu X, Frantz LAF, Yu H, Alves JM, Larson G, Luo SJ.   +44 more
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000-72,000 years ago. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Yue JP, Song GD, Yang SX, Kang SG, Li JY, Marwick B, Ollé A, Fernández-Marchena JL, Shu PX, Liu HY, Zhang YX, Huan FX, Zhao QP, Qiao BT, Shen ZS, Deng CL, Petraglia M.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Book Review: Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology, by Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton & Chris Tilley, 2007. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press; ISBN 978-1-59874-218-3 [PDF]

, 2009
Darvill, Timothy
core   +1 more source

Natural Sciences in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage [PDF]

, 2022
openaire   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Groucutt HS, Stewart M, Al-Jibreen F, Al-Qahtani M, Al-Shanti M, Andrieux E, Blinkhorn J, Boivin N, Breeze PS, Drake N, Memesh A, Mufarreh Y, Price G, Scerri EML, Vanwezer N, Vonhof H, Zalmout I, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD.   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Fotiadou CM, Pedersen JB, Rougier H, Roksandic M, Spyrou MA, Nägele K, Reiter E, Bocherens H, Kandel AW, Haidle MN, Streicher TP, Conard NJ, Schilt F, Godinho RM, Uthmeier T, Doyon L, Semal P, Krause J, Barbieri A, Mihailović D, Crevecoeur I, Posth C.   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source